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Dr. Stylianos Kampakis

Stylianos has worked with British Premier League club, Tottenham Hotspur FC, to build predictive models for football injuries. Currently he is working at Brandtix, building the world's first holistic football index, which measures an athlete's value using both his performance and his social media presence. In the last 5 years Stylianos has worked in machine learning and statistics. Currently he is researching how data mined from Twitter can be used to predict games in the Premier League.

Duration: 43m

Course Description

The purpose of this course is to teach about how to use Python and machine learning in order to predict sports outcomes. It takes you through through all the steps, from collecting data using a web crawler to making profitable bets based on your predicted results.
The course is built around predicting tennis games, but the things taught can be extended to any sport, including team sports.
The course includes:
1) Intro to Python and Pandas.
2) Instructions on how to build a crawler in Python for the purpose of getting stats.
3) Data wrangling.
4) Using machine learning for sports predictions.
5) Discussion on advanced topics, like extension to team sports and using social media, such as Twitter, for additional information.
This course is geared towards people that have some interest in data science and some experience in Python. It does not require extensive coding experience, since all the scripts are provided. No prior experience in data science is required, even though it could be helpful. All the basic concepts are explained within the course.
Skills learned: Machine learning, web crawling, data wrangling and manipulation
Tools used: Python, Pandas, Scikit learn
Course Curriculum
1. Introduction to the course
2. Python and Pandas primer
3. Data crawling
4. Model testing and metrics
5. Data analysis
6. Advanced topics
7. Summary

What am I going to get from this course?

2) Build and use a web crawler in Python to extract the data from online sources.

3) Understand all the concepts and pitfalls behind prediction in sports.

Prerequisites and Target Audience

What will students need to know or do before starting this course?

The course assumes that students do not know Python or machine learning, but that they do have some familiarity with basic programming concepts or languages. Therefore, experience in Python or Machine Learning is not required, but will help.

Who should take this course? Who should not?

Who should take this course? Who should not?

This course is for the following audiences:

1) Anyone who is interested in learning how machine learning can be used in sports betting.

2) Anyone who is looking for a beginner's course in machine learning, in an applied setting.

3) Anyone who is interested in sports analytics.

Who shouldn't take this course:

Even though the course teaches you how to use machine learning to make profit in a betting setting, it is not a get rich quick scheme. Building a successful model that can systematically beats the odds requires many hours of work and experimentation. This course will teach you some of the fundamentals to do that.

Curriculum

Module 1: Introduction

Lecture 1
Introduction to the course

Lecture 2
Predicting tennis: introduction

Module 2: Python and Pandas primer

11:00

Lecture 3
Python primer

11:00

Lecture 4
Introduction to Pandas

Module 3: Data Crawling

Lecture 5
Data crawling

Lecture 6
Data crawling: code

Lecture 7
Data merging

Lecture 8
Data merging: code

Module 4: Model testing and metrics

31:54

Lecture 9
Statistical models

06:02

Lecture 10
Machine learning model validation

06:34

Lecture 11
Machine learning tips

03:45

Lecture 12
Metrics for classification

08:19

Lecture 13
Metrics for regression

07:14

Module 5: Data analysis

Lecture 14
Data analysis: Part 1

Lecture 15
Data analysis: Part 2

Module 6: Advanced topics

Lecture 16
Using human input and social media

Lecture 17
Team sports

Module 7: Summary

Lecture 18

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